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China

China

Ministry of Public Security China

Responsible for public security, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is part of the State Council, China’s chief administrative body and principal police and security authority.

Law enforcement services in China are provided by Public Security Bureaus, the provincial and municipal public security counterparts which, under the leadership of local government, operate in the main towns, cities and counties of China.

Providing training for domestic law enforcement agencies on international police cooperation;

Providing criminal intelligence support at both domestic and international level;

Assisting and cooperating in cross-border fugitives operations;

Liaising with China’s Sub-Bureaus in Hong Kong and Macao;

Ensuring that Chinese police at all levels and locations have access to INTERPOL's databases over I-24/7, thus boosting national security;

Gathering and exchanging information in an effort to enforce public or criminal laws (Mutual Legal Assistance) and to assist in extraditions.

National focus

Chinese police forces have put a lot of energy into tackling traditional and non-traditional crime. By strengthening legislation, adopting comprehensive public order management policies and increasing law enforcement training, China intends to enhance its country’s ability to prevent and fight crime more effectively, thus safeguarding social stability. Chinese authorities fully recognize the vital role INTERPOL plays in tackling international crime in all its forms, through the effective cooperation of police forces around the world.

LYON, France – An INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting illegal soccer gambling networks across Asia during the 2014 FIFA World Cup has resulted in more than 1,400 arrests and the seizure of almost USD 12 million.During the six-week operation, law enforcement officers from China, Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam carried...

BEIJING, China – During her first official mission to China, INTERPOL President Mireille Ballestrazzi met with senior government and law enforcement officials to identify current and future areas for increased international law enforcement cooperation via the world police body.During her two-day (28 and 29 April) mission, President Ballestrazzi met with M...

LYON, France – The Director General of the International Cooperation Department, Chinese Ministry of Public Security, has met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble at INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters to discuss security measures aimed at enhancing international cooperation against transnational crime.The visit by Director General Jing...

HANGZHOU, China – Enhancing the knowledge and skills of police, increased information exchange and improving cooperation to better target the organized crime networks behind illicit trade is the focus of the first INTERPOL training session being held in China.The INTERPOL Trafficking in Illicit Goods and Counterfeiting Capacity Building Seminar, organized...

SEOUL, Korea – One of China’s most wanted criminals and subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice for attempted murder and organized crime membership has been arrested in Seoul following months of intelligence work and operational cooperation between the INTERPOL National Central Bureaus (NCBs) in Seoul and Beijing.Chinese national Chuanbo Lu is believed to be on...

BEIJING, China ‒ International efforts to develop a cooperative and collaborative multi-agency strategy to tackle environmental crime received a boost after China hosted its first National Environmental Security Seminar with the support of INTERPOL.At the meeting China announced it would seek out and develop opportunities to enhance its international envi...

LYON, France – INTERPOL is marking Global Tiger Day with the announcement of an operation aimed at protecting this iconic species and other big cats threatened with extinction and targeting the individual and organized crime groups behind the illicit activity.Operation Prey, conducted across Bhutan, China, India and Nepal led has so far led to nearly 40 a...

SHENZHEN, China – The largest-ever Universiade which brought together more than 12,000 participants involved in more than 300 events across 41 venues in Shenzhen has concluded safely with China’s security efforts supported by INTERPOL.
An INTERPOL Major Events Support Team (IMEST) was deployed as part of the security arrangements for the World Student Gam...

HONG KONG, China – Greater emphasis on the leadership role of police and customs and the benefits of working collaboratively is the focus of the 2010 International Law Enforcement Intellectual Property (IP) Crime Conference which opened today in Hong Kong.The conference is the first to be held in Asia and brings together some 500 law enforcement specialis...

LYON, France – More than 5,000 people have been arrested and nearly 10 million US dollars seized in an INTERPOL co-ordinated operation in Asia run throughout the 2010 FIFA World Cup targeting illegal soccer gambling linked to organized crime gangs. In the month-long operation codenamed SOGA III, police across China (including Hong Kong and Macao), Malaysi...

HONG KONG, China – A one-day training seminar on the international dimension of intellectual property (IP) crime has been delivered by INTERPOL and Hong Kong Customs to some 120 front line customs and police investigators from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.&nbsp;The training (22 October) followed the 2010 International Law Enforcement IP Crime Confe...

LYON, France – An international law enforcement operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL against the illegal trade in tigers has led to the arrest of some 25 individuals suspected of taking part in the illicit trade of one of the world’s most endangered species. The two-month operation (August-September) involved national enforcement agencies in six tiger-range...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Police across Southeast Asia have made a series of arrests and seized fake drugs worth millions of dollars in an operation supported by INTERPOL, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Customs Organization (WCO).Under the framework of the WHO’s International Medical Products Anti-counterfeiting Task Force (IMPACT) and co-...

BEIJING, China – Security measures at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China are to further benefit from the provision of a dedicated and encrypted video hotline between law enforcement authorities in Beijing and INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France, to allow direct contact between senior officials at both ends in case of emergencies or other urgent oper...

LYON, France – An INTERPOL co-ordinated operation targeting illegal soccer gambling across Asia has resulted in more than 1,300 arrests and the seizure of over 16 million US dollars.During the two-month-long operation, law enforcement officers throughout the region identified and raided 1,088 illegal gambling dens, many of which were controlled by organiz...

LYON, France – More than 400 people have been arrested&nbsp;across Asia following a five-month operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL&nbsp;that targeted illegal soccer gambling controlled by organized crime gangs.Police officers across the region identified and shut down a total of 272 underground gambling dens which were estimated to have handled more than 6...

INTERPOL presented wildlife authorities in Cameroon and Hong Kong with the INTERPOL Eco-Message Award for 2007 for their role in the dismantling of a major ivory-smuggling operation.The Eco-Message is a standardised form developed by INTERPOL to facilitate the exchange and analysis of information on important seizures of rare, endangered or illegally trad...